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Veteran Organizations
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PAHAR (People's Association for Himalayan Area Research)
PAHAR is a non-profit organisation dedicated to raising awareness of the fragile Himalayan environment and bringing together scientists, social activists, and common people to save the Himalayas.
Parikrama, Talla Danda Tallital
Nainital 263 001
Tel: 91.05946.36191
Contact: Shri Dr. Shekhar Pathak
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SBMA (Shri Bhuvaneshwari Mahila Ashram)
SBMA is an independent organisation that works with the people of the Garhwal Himalayas. The Ashram evolved out of community struggle led by the late Swami Manmathan, a crusader from Kerala who formed a passionate commitment to the progress of Uttarakhand.
As the name suggests, the Ashram has always been a shelter or open house for women and children: a platform for the activist, a refuge for the destitute. It now works in more than three hundred villages in Garhwal, with national and international initiatives. Born out of the alchemy of activist fire and social concern, SBMA looks to be, above all, a force for change that is led by the community.
Campus:
P.O. Anjanisain
Tehri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh 249 121
Tel: 91.137.637417, 637448
Fax: 91.137.637449
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DGSM (Dasholi Gram Swaraj Mandal)
A band of dedicated Sarvodaya activists under the leadership of Chandi Prasad Bhatt founded DGSM (earlier DGSS) in 1964 at Gopeshwar to work for the socio-economic, cultural, and environmental development of the region. The strength of DGSM's activities lies in the organised strength of the local people, especially women.
DGSM has provided aid to many villages over the year, providing the impetus to the setting up of Mahila Mangal Dals (village women's groups) and safeguarding the forests from exploitation. DGSM has also conducted study tours, and has recently set up a People's Information and Assistance Center.
Mandir Marg
Gopeshwar (Chamoli) 246 401
Tel: 91.137.252181, 3
Contact: Shri Chandi Prasad Bhatt
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Chipko Information Centre
Information pertaining to the Chipko and Tehri Dam (Save the Himalayas Movement) struggles can be obtained from the following office:
P.O. Silyara via Ghansyali
Tehri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh 249 155
Tel: Tehri 91.137.684566
Contact: Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna
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Trusts
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The Himalaya Trust
The Himalaya Trust was set up in 1993 in response to the need expressed by a group of grassroots social workers and environmental professionals working in the Western Himalayan region, to join together under an umbrella organization to collectively address issues of environmental degradation and increasing impoverishment of mountain communities in the Himalaya. Inspired and supported in its endeavours by Swami Chidananda of the Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, the Trust's objectives are to fulfill the development aspiration of the small isolated mountain communities, while safeguarding their ecological resource base, and their cultural and spiritual heritage.
Head Office:
274/2 Vasant Vihar
Dehra Dun 248 006
Tel: 91.135.773081
Fax: 91.135.620334
Email: ubcentre@del2.vsnl.net.in
Contact: Shri N.D. Jayal
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The Himalayan Foundation
HF is a pioneering NGO set up as a non-profit charitable action-oriented organisation aiming to mobilize public opinion and generate resources for supporting developmental activities in the Himalayas. The foundation is engaged in the preservation of the social, cultural, and environmental heritage of the Himalayan region.
The Foundation came into existence in 1991 and has a registered office in Chamoli district. It has a panel of experts of different disciplines guiding its activities and area of work. The Foundation is working under Himalayan eco-task forces organised at the local level working for the development and conservation of depleted forest resources. It is the first organisation in India to be given permission by the government to conduct large-scale afforestation and to promote environmental conservation in 26,864.72 hectares of panchayat forests in the Garhwal Himalayas. The foundation is actively involved and acting as a catalyst for making suitable amendments to the old forest policy of the Government of India so that the density of forests can be enhanced through active public participation. The efforts of the foundation have convinced the Government of India to seriously work out suitable eco-friendly forest policies for the hills.
Regd. Office:
Sartoli Village, P.O. Bagna
Nandprayag, Chamoli Distt. 246 449
Tel: 91.137.251268
Fax: 91.137.252367
Email: happrc@vsnl.com
Contact: Shri Dr. A.N. Purohit (patron)
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The Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust
HIHT is a nonprofit organisation committed to the premise that all human beings have the right to health, education, and economic self-sufficiency. The comprehensive health care and social development programs of HIHT incorporate medical care, education, and research.
Today it is the site of a world standard medical city and educational campus that includes: a large state-of-the-art hospital offering a full range of medical specialities and services; a holistic health program; a medical college’ a school of nursing; a rural development institute; and accommodations for staff, students, and patients’ families. This transformation is the result of the vision of H.H. Dr. Swami Rama.
Trust Address:
Jolly Grant
Dehra Dun 248 140
Tel: 91.135.682081, 082, 083 (Trust, Hospital)
Tel: 91.135.682095 (Rural Development Institute)
Fax : 91.135.682008 (Trust, Hospital, School of Nursing)
Email: hihtrdi@nde.vsnl.net.in (Hospital, Rural Development Institute)
Email: histsrc@nde.vsnl.net.in (Trust)
Web: www.hiht.org
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The Vishnu-Heera-Umesh-Pooran Public Charitable Trust
Mr. Ganesh Chandra Pande, ex-director Shri Ram Research Institute, Delhi has donated his entire savings and property to help the poor and needy of Almora District. His organization would accept donations in cash as well as kind. It distributes sustenance allowances, scholarship, books, clothes & shoes etc.
Office:
Mohalla Dubkiya
Almora 263 601
Contact: Shri G.C. Pande
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Training Institutes
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PSI (People's Science Institute)
252 Vasant Vihar, Phase-I Mandir Marg
Dehra Dun 248 006
Tel: 91.135.773649
Email: psi@nde.vsnl.net.in
Contact: Shri Ravi Chopra
UEEC (Uttarakhand Environmental Education Centre)
The UEEC arranges training facilities and funds for Uttarakhandis dedicated to the development of their village.
Jakhandevi
Almora 263 601
Email: pande@nde.vsnl.net.in
Contact: Shri Dr. Lalit Pande
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Research Organizations
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AME (Academy for Mountain Environics)
The Academy for Mountain Environics is a collective of professionals striving to promote values of conservation with on-the-ground technologies devised to help generate energy and manage water without the fuss of huge systems and "infrastructure". Working now in the once picturesque, now denuded hills of Garhwal in the sub-Himalayan devbhumi, the Academy's 40-odd geologists, geophysicists, vernacular architects, and conservationists have managed to marry technology to enterprise in ways that enhance values of conservation.
The Academy has strong community contact in several villages of Uttarkashi, Tehri Garhwal, Dehradun district of Uttar Pradesh, and in several tribal villages of Anantagiri and Paderu Mandal of Visakhapatnnam district, Andhra Pradesh.
111 Rajpur Road
Dehra Dun 248 001
Tel: 91.135.742567, 747-304
Fax: 91.135.650944, 651108, 749560
Email: environics@vsnl.com, mountenv@del2.vsnl.net.in
Contact: Shri Sreedhar Ramamurthy
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CREATE (Centre for Research on Ecology, Environmental Applications, Training, and Education)
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CREATE is an autonomous centre and non-government organization dedicated to promoting and supporting initiatives for sustainable biosphere management through natural and human resource appraisal.
91/2 Vijay Park
Dehra Dun 248 001
Tel: 91.135.623437
Fax: 91.135.625495
Email: create-india@iname.com
Web: members.tripod.com/~createindia/
Contact: Shri Praveen Gupta
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HARC (Himalayan Action Research Centre)
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HARC was established as a community organization in 1988. The intention was to upgrade the socio-economic status of hill people and enhance the capabilities of all actors in the development process. HARC was built on the principle that sustainable development runs parallel to capacity building and adopted the role of development educator and catalyst, cooperating with various institutional networks as well as different individuals and society.
Field Office:
Near Forest Range Office, P.O. Naugaon
Uttar Kashi, Uttar Pradesh
Tel: 91.137.525272
Liason Office:
744 Indira Nagar, P.O. New Forest
Dehra Dun 248 006
Tel: 91.135.620121
Fax: 91.135.625615
Email: harcddn@nde.vsnl.net.in
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HESCO (Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organisation)
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HESCO is the recent recipient of the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru award for the year 1999-2000. The organization will utilise the award money of Rs one lakh for extension of traditional technologies in the hills.
The organisation has focused on preserving ethnic resources and indigenous technologies, as well as leading the water movement (jal andolan) that has included resurrecting the traditional water mills of the region. In 1998, the movement had organised two padyatras last year to highlight the water problem and continues to work on issues pertinent to the lives of villagers throughout the interior.
Field Office:
Vigyan Prasth, Gwar-chauki
Gholtir, Chamoli Distt. 246 430
Dehra Dun Office:
86 Dobhalwala
Dehra Dun 248 001
Telefax: 91.135.650615
Contact: Shri Dr. Anil Joshi
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RACHNA (Research, Advocacy, and Communication in Himalayan Areas)
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RACHNA aims to meet the information, technical, research, and professional training needs of social movements, community groups, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and development agencies working in or working for the Himalayan region. RACHNA hopes to foster greater people-to-people communication, increased flow of necessary technology and the sharing of knowledge and expertise among groups interested in making a difference in the lives of mountain communities.
12/26, Ashirwad Enclave
Dehradun 248 195
Tel: 91.135.620683
Fax: 91.135.763216
Email: rachnadd@nde.vsnl.net.in
Web: www.mymountains.org
Contact: Shri Manoj Bhatt
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Rural Development
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ERA (Experiments in Rural Advancement)
The ERA helps deprived communities manage their depleting resources in a sustainable way. At the micro level, ERA works directly in community education, health care, agriculture, and projects on women's empowerment through income generation. At the macro level, it strengthens small but influential local groups, functioning as a sort of resource agency. ERA has developed primary water sources for safe drinking water and small irrigation projects. It has encouraged the cultivation of the hill rose for oil extraction and launched a women-managed training-cum-production centre. It also promotes leadership amongst youth and women, in order to strengthen local panchayats.The community-run ERA primary schools are a platform for providing health and environmental education to children.
At Bin, PO Box # 03
Pithoragarh
Tel: 91.05964.22861, 231303
Web: www.differentindia.org/eira.html
Contact: Shri Malti Singh, Shri Govind Joshi
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ROSE (Rural Organisation for Social Education)
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ROSE attempts to ensure environmental conservation, afforestation and health programmes for the rural poor, and to support and initiate income-generating employment programmes. ROSE runs a primary school for underprivileged children, organises health, sanitation, and family planning programmes through meetings and village visits, and promotes organic farming, nurseries and tree plantations. It helps produce natural, hand-made card/sisal fibre handicrafts, poultry-rearing, bee-keeping and eco-tourism. ROSE also conducts studies on Kumaoni lifestyle, and has published 30 reports and 10 articles by volunteers.
HANSI, a UK-based organisation that supports community development in rural India, has partnered with ROSE, and has embarked on a fundraising campaign.
Village Sonargaon, P.O. Kanda
District Bageshwar, Uttar Pradesh 263 631
Web: www.origin8.demon.co.uk/rose.html
Web (HANSI): www.origin8.demon.co.uk/
Contact: Shri Jeevan Lal Verma; Smt. Bashanti
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SIDH (Society for the Integrated Development of Himalayas)
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SIDH has done work in the tribal belt of Garhwal. SIDH aims to enable people who have been deprived of appropriate education to increase their happiness by providing holistic education and bringing about a change in their attitude towards life.
Address:
Hazelwood cottage, PO Box 19
Landour Cantt., Mussoorie 248 179
Tel: 91.135.632904, 630338
Fax: 91.135.631304
Email: sidhsri@nde.vsnl.net.in
Contact: Shri Pawan Gupta and Smt. Anuradha Gupta
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Multipurpose Organizations
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International Society For Alternative Medicine
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ISAM provides health care particularly to the disabled, under-privileged, weaker sections of society, women and children, and victims of natural disasters. ISAM has promoted the National Institute of Alternative Medicine to provide education and treatment in time-tested drugless treatment without side effects under various therapies and also conducts formal education programs on alternative medicine. It has also promoted a National Institute of Tourism (NIT) to train and equip young people to find their rightful place in the commercial world of Tourism Management.
Recently, ISAM has set up a 15-bed, hospital-cum-rehabilitation centre for AIDS patients at village Bungalow Ki Kandi, Tehri Garhwal. ISAM is also running a mobile medicare unit which takes medical aid to inaccessible hill villages and also serves as a transport to bring children/trainees to the Hospital-cum-vocational centre.
Furthermore, ISAM welcomes voluntary workers and can offer hospitality exchange programmes. The society also offers courses in Alternative Medicine and Health Tourism (Stress Relief Programmes for higher productivity of company's executives). ISAM further offers accommodations/land for construction of company guest houses/senior citizens cottages. Alternative medicine treatments are available on the premises.
Dehra Dun Office:
c/o Rawal Nursing Home
35/1, East Canal Road
Dehra Dun 248 001
Tel: 91.135.653709, 652081, 653400, 656026
Email: arawal@nde.vsnl.net.in, alt_medicine@hotmail.com
Web: www.garhwalhimalayas.com/home/isam.htm
Contact: Dr. Sharad Sindhwani, Dr. (Smt) Asha Rawal
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REACH (Rural Entrepreneurship for Art & Cultural Heritage)
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REACH aims at setting up a Himalayan Heritage Center in Uttarakhand, the Gateway to the Himalayas, with the aim of preserving, documenting, and silently providing wherewithal for conservation of the traditions that have sustained the communities in this region. It also has, as part of its agenda, the setting up of a Gurukul where seminal minds shall spend time to impart wisdom to their chosen disciples. It intends to study the symbiotic relationship between culture and development to suggest a different paradigm.
The main aim of REACH is to bring culture on the center stage of policy planning and strengthen it at the grassroots.
11 Vasant Vihar
Dehra Dun 248 006
Tel: 91.135.625967, 744106, 750211
Fax: 91.135.756119
Email: webline@vsnl.com
Web: www.virasat.com
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RLEK (Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra)
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The primary aim of RLEK is to fight the cause of the under-privileged. Hence, RLEK began with the objective of getting the underprivileged their due. The aim was to get whatever was legally due to them. Thus, the first recourse was through legal remedy. But, if legal remedies were not available, RLEK aimed to prompt the government to bring out new laws to further the cause. For this RLEK also organised the poor.
Current campaigns focus on the cause of the Van Gujjars, nomadic tribes-people of Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. The campaigns include literacy, elementary health, and veterinary care, community forest management, and Panchayat Raj enfranchisement education.
Head Office:
21 East Canal Road
Dehra Dun 248 001
Tel: 91.135.657630
Fax: 91.135.656881
Main Office:
68/1 Rajpur Road
Dehra Dun 248 001
Tel: 91.135.745539, 746071, 740955
Email: rlek@vsnl.com
Web: education.vsnl.com/rlek/
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SAATHI (Society for Advancement and Awareness for Training Heritage & Integration)
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Delhi Address:
1003, Kailash Tower, Kaushambi
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
Dehradun Address (Head office):
Village: Kargi
P.O. Banjarewala
Dehradun
Contact: Smt. Dr. Kusum Nautiyal
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SEWAA (Society for Environment, Wildlife Action and Awareness)
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SEWAA has been working in Uttarakhand over the last few years for the overall development of the region by disseminating appropriate technologies, educational awareness, and providing support and guidance to other voluntary organisations. SEWAA also seeks to strengthen people's movements by raising and bringing the issues to the attention of appropriate governmental authorities and by initiating and running programmes for the social and economic development of the people. It is our endeavour to maintain a healthy coexistence of mankind and nature by linking science and technology to meeting society's environmental needs.
34 Mohini Road
Dehradun 248 001
Email: greendun@nde.vsnl.net.in
Web: www.uttarakhand.org/SEWAA
Contact: Shri Anil Jaggi
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